War on the Rocks
Hosted by Ryan and Kerry Anderson · Ryan Evans
4.6from 1,045 ratings
- 343
- Episodes
- 95
- Transcribed
- 1,045
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2013
- First episode
- 266K
- YouTube views
About War on the Rocks
Discussions over drinks with security, defense, and foreign policy insiders and experts. The original War on the Rocks podcast series.
- Publisher
- Ryan Evans
- Category
- news · news
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 8 Jul 2013
- Latest episode
- 17 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
95 of 343 episodes have a transcript.
17 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
A Body Blow? The War on Iran and U.S. Military Readiness
26 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Marine Corps' Plan for the Future of Ground Combat
24 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
Command and Politics in the War Between Moscow and Kyiv
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A Body Blow? The War on Iran and U.S. Military Readiness
Published 17 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Iran does have the options to sort of escalate and may have increasingly sophisticated tools in order to do so. What do you all make of that? Starting with you, Mike. I have fruit trees in my front yard and every year we prune them in order to get some of the secondary branches and remove them so that the energy goes to the primary branches and produces more better fruit. And in a way, that's what we did with the Iranian military inadvertently. We kind of got rid of much of their Air Force and got rid of much of their Navy, which are probably in a lot of ways kind of less productive. less survivable components of their armed forces and left them with what the best protected components and most survivable, which were their missiles and drones and which were the most effective as well. […]
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- Mark Cancian
- Stacie Pettyjohn
- Michael Eisenstadt
- Dara Massicot
- Michael Kofman
Reach and audience
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- YouTube views
- 266,468
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.6 / 5
- 1,045 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 81 / 100
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- Quality
- 88
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 86
- Engagement
- 99
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Who hosts War on the Rocks?
Ryan and Kerry Anderson host the show. Published by Ryan Evans.
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